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Kindred weaknesses induce friendships as often as kindred virtues.

Christian Nestell Bovee

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Winter is the night of vegetation.
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We should round every day of stirring action with an evening of thought. We learn nothing of our experience except we muse upon it.
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Common sense, alas in spite of our educational institutions, is a rare commodity.
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The lively and mercurial are as open books, with the leaves turned down at the notable passages. Their souls sit at the windows of their eyes, seeing and to be seen.
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We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.
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The reveries of the dreamer advance his hopes, but not their realization. One good hour of earnest work is worth them all.
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In politics, merit is rewarded by the possessor being raised, like a target, to a position to be fired at.
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The passions are like fire, useful in a thousand ways and dangerous only in one, through their excess.
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A woman’s love, like lichens upon a rock, will still grow where even charity can find no soil to nurture itself.
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There is probably no hell for authors in the next world – they suffer so much from critics and publishers in this.
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Formerly when great fortunes were only made in war, war was a business; but now, when great fortunes are only made by business, business is war.
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Like the withered roses of a once gay garland, the feelings of youth command in age a melancholy interest.
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Kindred weaknesses induce friendships as often as kindred virtues.
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The nearest approximation to an understanding of life is to feel it–to realize it to the full–to be a profound and inscrutable mystery.
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Activity and sadness are incompatible.
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It is ever the invisible that is the object of our profoundest worship. With the lover it is not the seen but the unseen that he muses upon.
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